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National Convention for Alliance Building begins

Justice P.B. Sawant, a retired Supreme Court judge, Islamic scholar Maulana Khaleel-ur-Rahman Sajjad Naumani, Justice B. G. Kolse Patil, a retired High Court judge, Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and others seated on the dais of the national convention of Alliance for Justice and Peace.
Justice P.B. Sawant, a retired Supreme Court judge, Islamic scholar Maulana Khaleel-ur-Rahman Sajjad Naumani, Justice B. G. Kolse Patil, a retired High Court judge, Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and others seated on the dais of the national convention of Alliance for Justice and Peace.

By Pervez Bari,

Mumbai, October 16th, 2017: A two-day national convention started here in Mumbai with the objective of building a broad alliance for justice and peace.

The speakers in the convention expressed the view that the communal and fascist forces along with the right wings are trying to demolish our democratic system and also throw out the Indian Constitution and the laws. The alert and loyal citizens will never tolerate this and should stand up and put a constitutional fight. For this cause the alert citizens and organizations should combine together and coordinate their efforts to attain their objective of defending the Constitution.

Alert citizens, activists, writers, journalists, thinkers and members of various social groups and human rights organizations from all over India have gathered here at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Bhavan, in for a two-day convention with the objective of building a broad alliance to help keep our society and the nation in the path of justice and peace in line with the Constitutional principles.

Mumbai is the land of movements that is why Alliance for Justice and Peace started this movement from here. Justice B. G. Kolse Patil, a retired High Court judge, with this encouraging statement welcomed the delegates in the inaugural session.

Justice P.B. Sawant, a retired Supreme Court judge, in his presidential address talked about the current pathetic situation of the country and insisted on a focused approach to work on an Action Plan which propels people into a mass movement. He stressed that through this Action Plan the Economic system of the country should be changed as the present Economic system is profit oriented. It should be people-oriented so that it creates employment for the youth of the country.

Well-known Islamic scholar Maulana Khaleel-ur-Rahman Sajjad Naumani in his keynote address congratulated the activists who had come from different parts of India for a cause that will safeguard the Constitution for the future generations of India. He said that people and organizations have been working in this direction but in a scattered manner. However, now it’s time to pool in all these resources and form a strong alliance.

Dalit leader Waman Meshram, the president of the ‘Bharat Mukti Morcha’, said that the fascist forces have been creating communal rifts between citizens belonging to various religions and taking the advantage to capture power and rule over us.

SDPI national president A. Sayeed said all the political parties in the country are responsible for this pitiable socio-political situation prevailing here. Nobody, especially the Congress cannot escape from the responsibility. America and its allies have utilized political parties such as SP, BJP, RJD, JDU, JDS and others for the fulfilment of their agenda.

A view of the delegates seated in the convention.
A view of the delegates seated in the convention.

Sayeed said the Challenge in front of the Alliance is one and single. That is, formation of a people’s movement with clarity of vision and ability to struggle. There is a famous saying that the Capitalism is followed by imperialism. We experience this principle totally realized in India.

Capitalism entered our country in the name of development and imperialism in the name of war against terrorism. These two forces have taken hand with the entire system of our country, including political parties, ruling machinery, religious and cultural organizations, human rights movements and even judiciary. RSS and BJP are only one party among several of this unholy nexus. Now it has become a three phase power, Capitalism-Imperialism-communalism.

Renowned Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad putting a straight attack on the fascist forces reiterated the need for all secular forces to unite and put up a strong fight against the communal rule to bring back justice and peace and uphold the values of the Constitution.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Ali Jinnah from Chennai said fascist Forces at the Centre are trying to demonise the majority of peace loving Muslim community and labels it leaders as anti-nationals and accusing Muslim organizations with terror charges. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, (RSS), the new converts of Patriots, which refused to hoist national flag, are now labelling those who oppose them as anti-national and claim monopoly on patriotism.

Jinnah said the Modi government which is actually best known in the world as an event management company has only succeeded in organizing mega Bollywood style programme abroad and running a fake propaganda campaign. On the side of Administration and governance the government has failed miserably in all aspects.

In fact, the BJP lead central government, since its inception has been implementing the fascist agenda of the RSS. They are focused on converting India into a Hindu Rastra. BJP is openly using Government machinery by utilizing the structure and resources of RSS. It is systematically executing their plans every day towards achieving their evil goal.

“In a nutshell they are trying to destroy our Nation, our cultural diversity and gradually imposing one culture, autocracy and a Military rule against the wishes of the people”, Jinnah said.

In the afternoon session of the day which was moderated by Teesta Setalvad and Kumar Kale, all the delegates discussed at length on the topic ‘Challenges before the Nation’.

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